Swirling sandstorms in the desert beyond the western edge of the ... the monk stopped in Dunhuang, a thriving Silk Road oasis where crosscurrents of people and cultures were giving rise to one ...

Oil replaced many commodities once traded along the Silk Road, but low prices have ... I have plodded from oasis to oasis in the Hejaz desert of Arabia. In the winter peaks of the Caucasus ...

On the western border of the Taklimakan Desert in southwest Xinjiang, there is a beautiful oasis, in the center ... within China’s boundary on the Silk Road leading to the western regions ...

The oasis is estimated ... for travellers on the ancient Silk Road trading route. But recently it has been in danger of being swallowed up by the surrounding desert. In the 1990s, it was ...

Moving trade goods along the ancient Silk Roads was made difficult by the fierce climatic and geographical conditions of desert and mountain regions along ... Some merchants operated from stationery ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries, merchants traveled westward across China from oasis to oasis, crossing the harsh terrain of the Taklamakan Desert to reach ...

Moving trade goods along the ancient Silk Roads was made difficult by the fierce climatic and geographical conditions of desert and mountain regions along ... Some merchants operated from stationery ...

Here vast areas of arid desert adjoin mulberry orchards and wide ... A double landlocked country on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan ...

The digital rendering of an ancient weaving machine enables visitors to experience the creation of the legendary brocade ...